Janice Kapp Perry was born in Ogden, Utah, raised in Vale, Oregon, and makes
her home in Provo, Utah, with husband of 44 years, Douglas Perry. Currently
Doug and Janice are serving an 18-month proselyting mission in the Santiago
Chile West Mission (will return home in November 2003). They have five children
and 13 grandchildren. Through the years they have also had many foster children.
Janice received her musical training at Brigham Young University in Provo
and has been writing and recording gospel music for the last 27 years. She
composed the hymn “As Sisters in Zion” for the LDS hymnbook and has ten
songs in the Primary songbook. She served as Relief Society President in
her Provo ward for 7 years, and retired in 2000 from singing with the Mormon
Tabernacle Choir. She has produced more than 50 albums of original music,
numerous sacred cantatas, several full-length musicals, and her music is
known world-wide throughout the Church. In the ten years previous to leaving
on their mission, Janice and Doug traveled extensively giving firesides
and women’s conferences around the United States. Her music has been performed
by artists such as Gladys Knight, Brooks & Dunn, and The Osmonds-Second
Generation. She recently has written and published three volumes of new
sacred hymns with a variety of hymntext writers, as well as a book telling
the stories behind her songs.